Title:Walking the Tightrope: Edward Heath's Vision of Europe and Anglo-American Relations
Author(s):ROSSBACH, Niklas HelmerDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This is a study of the consequences for the Anglo-American special relationship of Heath’s attempt to place Britain at the centre of the EC. British accession to the EC is widely regarded as the chief accomplishment of the ...
Title:War by Images: From Kosovo to Afghanistan
Author(s):DE FRANCO, ChiaraDate:2008Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:In the most classical way and a less than original strategy in International Relations, this research is about power, the sources of power, and power relations. However, the unit of analysis is all but classical; on the ...
Title:War Remembrance in the Republic of Moldova: Commemoration, state-formation and belonging
Author(s):POPA, GabrielaDate:2011Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The thesis examines the practices and spaces of Second World War commemorations following the fall of the Soviet Union. Drawing on the case of the Republic of Moldova, it addresses two dimensions of the topic: the temporal ...
Title:'Weaving a silver thread' : human rights coherence in EU foreign affairs and counter-terrorism
Author(s):GOLABEK, MichalDate:2013Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:Human rights are among the chief values on which the EU is ‘founded’ (Art. 6 TEU) and which it seeks to promote through its external relations (Art. 21 TEU). Coherence with values is a significant rhetorical tool which is ...
Title:The Welfare State we're in: Organisations of the unemployed in action in Paris and Berlin
Author(s):ZORN, AnnikaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The following thesis looks at the contentious action of the unemployed in Paris and Berlin. The thesis investigates the role of local organisations of the unemployed in contentious activities. More specifically, it looks ...
Title:West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s
Author(s):IWASA, TakuroDate:2007Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The aim of this thesis is to analyse the changes through the time of the West European academic images and stereotypes of Japan since the 1970s, and to study how Japan has been produced and constructed for Europe in some ...